New Delhi, Jan 1 (DHNS): A youth committed suicide and his friend attempted suicide after being arrested and then released on bail for harassing two girls in south Delhi’s Fatehpur Beri, police said.

The incident took place at New Manglapuri area on December 24. “We received a call at police control room that a few people were beating up a youth after he was caught harassing a girl at a bus stop,” said a senior police official.

A police team rushed to the spot and found that a youth was beaten up by few other youths. On enquiry, police found that a girl’s brothers and their friends were beating Chandrakant Singh, 19.

They were all brought to the police station where the girls lodged a case accusing three people for harassing them, including Chandrakant.

“He was arrested and released subsequently,” said the officer. One of the victims had lodged a case under section 509 of the Indian Penal Code against the three accused at the Mehrauli police station.

On questioning police found that Chandrakant along with Sonu Vaidhya, 19 and Mohit, 20, were students in Industrial Training Institute in Nizamuddin and both the victims, residents of Mehrauli, are students of Industrial Training Institute near Siri Fort.

Both accused and victims on regular basis board a bus on route number 413 for their respective institutes.

One victim said she along with her friends were admitted in the institute in September and the three youths were passing lewd comments on them from then itself. They had also warned them but to no avail.

So on December 24, they brought their brothers with them and were standing at the bus stop alone. The friends came there passed lewd comments again. Their brothers tried to catch hold of them. The others fled but Chandrakant ran inside the bus where he was caught and beaten up by the girl’s brothers. They also called the police control room.

The next day, unable to bear the shame of being arrested Chandrakant hung himself at his home. He was found dead in his room by his younger sister at around 2 pm on December 25, a senior police officer. His family members rushed him to Safdarjung Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

A suicide note recovered from him said he took the extreme step on his own and nobody should be blamed for it. When Sonu Vaidhya heard his friend had died, he too tried to commit suicide by consuming poison. He, however, survived after his family members rushed him to hospital, where he is recovering.